May 7, 2014

Trials Fusion Review

Trials is back, and this time
it's all based in the future... I think. Well, I don't remember if it
ever mentioned a date, but the main title theme song sings "Welcome to
the future!" They tried to add a story to this game, but I'm here for
all the bikes, vehicles, roaming the different terrain, and this time,
doing tricks. I don't have time for a story when I'm doing crazy flips
over randomly placed boxes!

They really outdid themselves with the levels in Trials
Fusion. It's very detailed, and sometimes I lost track of my rider
because I was looking at the background, checking out what was going on.
You can tell they spent a lot of time creating these levels, and I
applaud them for it. I had a lot of fun playing through the levels.

Now I heard this game was hard, and I thought, "Hey I
got through all the levels of Trials HD. Shouldn't be too difficult."
Then I played, and I was a different kind of wrong. I was right when I
thought that getting through each of the levels wasn't the most
difficult thing. What I was wrong about was the difficulty of unlocking
new levels. It reminds me of my Super Mario 3D World rant. You have to
get a certain amount of medals to unlock levels. A bronze medal is
rewarded for just completing the level, and the sliver/ gold medals are
given to you by completing the level in a certain amount of time, and
the amount of faults you had (times you crashed). I'll take you to the
bank, Senator - to the blood bank. So, if you got a gold medal, you get
three medals towards unlocking more levels. I feel like the amount of
gold medals you have to get to unlock these levels are a little much. I
just want to play the levels, not have to keep going back to older
levels to make sure I get gold on them.

That sure was frustrating, but luckily there's a create
mode where you can make your own levels and share them with everyone
over the internet. There's a lot of user-created levels, and you can
rate them after playing them. Let me just say that there are a lot of
creative people making great levels out there.

Multiplayer! Yes Trials has that... well, local
multiplayer, no online multiplayer. WHY!? After telling my friends
online that they need to buy Trials Fusion so we can play some
multiplayer, I then went to check out the multiplayer and could only
find options for local. I had to quickly tell my friends that I had just
jumped to the conclusion that they had it. Now I look stupid/ am silly.
I'm not sure if it's coming later on; I'm hoping they do; it looks like
a lot of fun.

Final Say: If you liked previous Trials games, you'll
like this one. The controls are the same, and that is to say, great.
Just keep in mind that there's no online multiplayer. Really, that's the
game's main downfall. Sure, the getting enough medals is frustrating,
but the amount of user-created levels out there makes up for it. Trials
Fusion is still a very fun game, and I still recommend it.